Wandering Mirrors

Hi Paul, thanks for posting this, my missis has exactly the same problems with her 330 cab. I drove it the other day and it drove me mad!!
Can anyone help?
Murray

 

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Bump again, nobody had any problems like this or know what may be the problem?

 

sounds like something to do with the feature where you put the car in reverse and the mirror points to the kerb, no idea what would be causing it to randomly happen though, some sort of switch on the gear stick assembly maybe?

 

Could possibly be the reverse switch causing a problem. Im only presuming this as there must be a electrical pick up point at the reversing switch to engage the passenger mirror to tilt.

 

The reverse dipping mirror only works on the passenger side only and is activated by the reverse light switch, so should not affect the drivers mirror in any way.

Does the car have memory seats?

 

Had same issue on my E60 took it to bmw dio it was reverse switch.. BMW charged me £82... wish i just removed the fuse! :shifty:

 

you could try , if it has electric memory seats , fill the all the memory slots , i know this works no memory seat/mirrors . if no memory seats , take the motor out of the mirror and make sure that there is no water or corrosion in the electrical plug thats plugs in to the back of the motor . hope this might be of help as i have had these faults on 46s befor

 

Thanks gunslinger, I shall try it when she gets back from work tomorrow as she does have memory seats. It's not just the mirrors not working at times, especially when the weather changes, they also point out to the sides, up down etc. This is BOTH of them. At the moment they do nor work at all, on the switch or in reverse. It's all very well having super duper electronic gadgets, but when they go wrong! your in deep do do!